Welcome back, team. This is Zach Evanash with the Strong Life podcast. This is episode 459. In this episode, I am pulling the audio from a new series that I started a couple months ago called Old School Gims. And what I wanted to do was in this podcast, I also recorded it live. So part one is up on YouTube. And then, of course,

if you go on Zach Evanesh.com, under the podcast category, you could watch the video,

you could listen to the audio, you could click the link for Apple, for Spotify, whatever you want.

But part one of this episode was powerful.

I speak with an old friend Henri Skiba and a new friend, Don Rock Blanks.

And all three of us grew up in tough towns, Rawley, Carteret, South Edison,

tough areas where you were raised tough.

And these guys are a little bit older than me, so they have some great history and great iron lessons shared from mentors that come from that world of old school strength.

You're going to be extremely inspired listening to the stories.

And to me, what's very important here is that I share where my inspiration came from.

I share the lessons so that the men who paved the way before us, you know, as they rest in the iron heavens, that their mission and

their passion and the things they did lives on. And so Henri Skiba talks about Mr. Penna,

Ray Penna, Ray's House of Iron. Donnie Rock Blanks talks about a gym where he met Henri Skiba, the Atlantic Health

Club, which was in Pertham Boy, which was a gym I trained out of. Donnie also shares lessons

learned from his dad and training out front and in the backyard and at home with local kids in the

area.

And just powerful lessons here that will inspire you.

And if you're a strength coach, maybe even get you to kind of look at your training a little bit differently.

I think we're really moving into an era of an overabundance of technology.

And I think a lot of this technology is great.

It's making the training safer.

It's stopping athletes from missing reps or lifting too heavy.

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